Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Urbino charms with its palace, art and hilltop setting - StevanZZ / Alamy Stock Photo In Florence, the streets teem year-round, ...

Among the many things I love about Italy is how the Renaissance can be spliced into your travels. Imagine: In Florence you can sleep in a converted 16th-century monastery that's just a block from ...

Tonight (November 29) actor, filmmaker, and art historian Weller joins assistant curator Christine Sciacca at the Getty Center to discuss “Florence, Cradle of the Renaissance.” What similarities do ...

The first visitor to Florence's Ospedale degli Innocenti in 1445 probably didn't spend much time appreciating the view — although it's a heck of a good one. The structure, with its grand loggia and ...

Florence has long been among Europe's most popular tourist destinations thanks to its historical significance, Renaissance art and museums, and sheer beauty. It’s the ideal of a wine-and-food-fueled ...

The 19th-century aesthete Walter Pater likened Luca della Robbia’s sculptures to “fragments of the milky sky itself, fallen into the cool streets, and breaking into the darkened churches.” These ...

The Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt once wrote, was a golden age for bastards. This, like so much of the popular understanding of 15th- and 16th-century Florence, is one of those truisms so often ...